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	'<{title}>' => 'Beginning work on pickle ranch',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="recipe">
	<h2>Dill pickle ranch</h2>
	<p>
		I tried making a batch of dill-pickle-flavoured ranch dressing by directly substituting the vinegar in my regular <a href="/en/recipe/ranch_dressing.xhtml">ranch dressing recipe</a> for pickle juice, but as I&apos;d feared, the pickle juice flavour isn&apos;t strong enough to make that work.
		I&apos;ll need to try adjusting the pickle juice to soy milk ratio, likely keeping their combined quantities the same as now to avoid altering the consistency.
		I think I&apos;ll leave out the salt next time too, with pickle juice already being so salty.
		This should be a fun experiment in the coming weeks though.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I think we put an emphasis on water quality but not water quantity because there&apos;s plenty of water to go around, there&apos;s just not enough <strong>*usable*</strong> water to go around.
			I mean, just look at the ocean.
			So much water, but it&apos;d make you sick.
			It&apos;s for this reason too that I think this emphasis is well-placed.
			We could look for ways to focus on both, I suppose, but do we really need to?
			As far as I can tell, we just need to focus on raising the level of quality in the water we already have.
		</p>
		<p>
			Even if we <strong>*wanted*</strong> to focus on water quantity, we wouldn&apos;t really have a way to improve the situation.
			The planet has a set amount of hydrogen and oxygen, which changes very slowly over time through interaction with matter from space.
			We can&apos;t raise this level artificially.
			We could try to convert more of our existing oxygen and hydrogen into water, but I think it&apos;d cost more energy than it&apos;s worth, especially considering how much water we have.
		</p>
		<p>
			There are of course some places on the planet that could use more water than they have, but solving the problem probably means periodic water shipments.
			How would those affect the environment?
			I&apos;m not sure, but we&apos;d need to look into that during some sort of trial run or something.
			Of course, shipping bad water isn&apos;t helpful, and there&apos;s already a shortage of good water, so places giving up their good water doesn&apos;t seem feasible.
			Which again, brings us back to the water quality issue.
			If the water quantity issue exists and is solvable, it&apos;s less pressing than the water quality issue, and solving the former in a useful way hinges on solving the latter.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I hadn&apos;t thought about heat making water unusable.
			You make a good point though.
		</p>
		<p>
			It&apos;s interesting to hear from a place in which quantity is the more pressing issue.
			Like you said though, this is solved through importing more water from another location, such as Lake Constance and the Danube River in your case.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
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